News: MUGU Caught in 419 scam!

Submitted by kakroo on Sat, 2010-09-04 17:27.

 

419A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States.

Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, was sentenced to 151 months of prison Wednesday by United States District Judge Janet Hall in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Diamreyan made more than US$1.3 million in a scam that suckered 67 victims between 2004 to 2009, prosecutors said. This type of fraud, called an advance-fee scam, was the number-one type of Internet fraud in 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Last year, advance-fee fraud accounted for nearly 17 percent of the Internet fraud logged by the FBI.

WIFI fun

Submitted by Kai on Tue, 2009-06-16 15:04.

Ever since moving back to Oslo, I have had some challenges with my network access from my office. Due to walls thick as an average american (excuse me if I offend you), made out of steel enforced stone and concrete, I decided that I would use two Wifi APs and just bridge them. I have Wifi just out in the hallway, and the reception has been fine with my laptop.

Since I moved my workstation here some time ago, I have had some real challenges with accessing any segments of the net outside of my small office segment (laptop, workstation, testbench, printer). I knew that the wifi connection where to blame. And I knew I had to fix it myself. And as you know, I fix my own stuff only after I have fixed all the other stuff (I believe I am not alone in this...).

I dreaded to have to drill holes in the walls, and stretch cables (from a security point of view, I probably should), and being lazy, I just postponed it.

Until today. I just had enough of Skype dropping every other minute, downloading being impossible, and worse - not being able to use my workstation to upload changes and administer the all the secret stuff that I mess up around the mesh. (No, I will not tell you where and what, since I do not want you to know that it is me that creates the mess!!)

Since I am still lazy, I decided that I would not take the elevator down to the server room and fetch cable, connectors, drill and the rest of the bits and pieces required to mount a cable. Instead, I went out in the sunshine, and just bought myself a new AP, reasoning that the Linksys ethernet bridge that I bought back in 2005 (possibly earlier too), had finally decided to die on me, and that it was just a matter of switching it with a different box. I picked up a Jensen AP with switch included, and where able to clean my office while ditching two devices, bundles of cable and two PSUs.

The Jensen thingie is a cheap box, and after some initial fidling with the setting, connected straight to the AP in the hallway. So far, it seems to be stable, and give me a link to the net that is not going to bug me too much. I hope!

Concrete man :)

Submitted by Kai on Thu, 2009-06-18 10:54.

Hi Sam, yes I know, you are made of concrete and steel ;) Tough as they come!

I did try several antennas before finaly trashing the AP. It seems to be some electronic instability with the box itself, thus I got the new one instead. And now it works all fine :)

Only challenge now, my PSU for the IBM X41 burned when in Budapest, and I need a replacement :)

Well, I am made out of

Submitted by Sam Van Ryder (not verified) on Tue, 2009-06-16 20:04.
Well, I am made out of concrete and steel... ;-) I was just going through a similar issue - but for me, it was the distance between the AP and the home office PC after changing ISP's (even through the very THIN wall construction of an American house). The solution was as easy as replacing the antenna on the wireless card with a stronger antenna.

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